Adjustable garment-hanger



T. KAUFER.

ADJUSTABLE GARMENT HANGER. APPLICATION FILED ocr.15,1920.

1,3 9,309, Patentd Aug. 30,1921.

' INVENTOR.

T all whom it may concern.

THEODORE 'KAUFE'R,

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. 1 iv OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

ADJUSTABLE GARMENT-HANGER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Aug. 30, 1921.

Application filed October 15, 1920. Serial No. 417,098.

Be it known that I, THEODORE KAUFER, a citizen of the United States, andresident of New York, in the county of Bronx and State of New York, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Adjustable GarmenthHangers, of which thefollowing is a full, clear, and exactspecification. i

This invention relates to garment hangers of the type shown. patentfiled May 1, and which has means the collar and shoulders of a coat tothe correct shape. 1

It is the object of the present invention to provide improved means foradjusting the garment hangers to fit difi' 1920, Ser. No. 378,055

ad usting means and to render the same more easy to adjust. l Thepresent construction of adjusting means is alsodesigned as animprovement on the device disclosed in m a plication for patent filedJuly 31, 1920, Ser. No. 400,327. 5 e

The present invention will be first hereinafter described in connectionwith the accompanying drawings, which constitute part of thisspecification, and then more specifically defined in the claims at theend h of the description.

In the accompanying similar reference characters are used to designatecorresponding parts throughout the several views Figure 1 is a sideelevation of a garment hanger made substantially in accordance with.this invention, part of the adjusting member being broken away.

Fig. 2 is a plan view of the hanger with out the supporting chains.

Fig. 3 is a detailed transverse section of the adjusting or connectingmember drawn to a larger scale and showing one pair of lugs on theshoulder loops in engagement therewith.

Fig. 4 is a central longitudinal sectional view of said connecting oradjusting member, and

Fig. 5 is a broken perspective view of the same.

The connecting or adjusting member of the hanger is indicated at 1 andis preferably made of a single piece of sheet metal bent to form achanneled central portion 7 having marginal or side flanges 2 having inwardly extending lugs 8 at the ends of said in my application for forpositively holding erent' sizes of" coats, to simplify the constructionof such drawings, wherein closures extending along the sides of thechannel7. In the flanges 2 spaced holes or openings 10 are formed foradjusting purposes.

The hanger consists of shoulder loops 13 may be easily disengaged fromthe openings 10 in which they h p ave been e connecting member 1, saidarms ex- 1 necessity of turning over the hanger'as was the case with theconstruction disclosed in my prior' application Ser. N 0. 400,327, filedJuly 31, 1920, already mentioned herein.

houlder loops, which engage the The collar holding members 15 are alsomade of wire bent to form inwardly extending loops 16 and having theirdiverging side portions coiled at 17 around the bearings 14:. Theextremities of said side portions extend beyond the coils l7 andterminate close to the outer ends of the loops 13 so as to form acontinuous support for the collar and shoulders of a, coat.

The inner ends of the loops 16 are connected by chains 18, or othersuitable flexible connections, to a ring 19 by means of which the hangermay be supported from a nail or hook, not shown. When a coat is placedon the hanger in the usual way and the same supported from the ring 19,the weight of the garment will cause the collar holding members 15 toautomatically turn on the bearings 14: so as to press into engagementwith the inside of said collar where they will hold it in stretchedposition so that no wrinkles or creases can remain or be formed therein.Inasmuch as the collar holding members are carried by the shouldermembers13, the former will be necessarily adjusted with the latter sothat the collar of every size of coat may be properly held as justdescribed.

In order to support trousers or other gar- Inents from the hangerwithout interfering with the proper holding of the coat, an adjustablerod 20 depends from the ends of the loops 13 and extends across parallelto the hanger proper and at a suitable distance below the same.' The rod20 is preferably madeof two pieces of wire having their inner endsoverlapped and provided with sliding loops 21 each engaging theoverlapping portion of the other piece while the outer ends of said rodsor wires are bent around offset portions 22 in the ends of the loops 13.The rod 20 is thus adjustable with the main part of the hanger.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new and desire tosecure by Letters Patent of the United States is 2-.-

1. In a garment hanger, the combination with a central connecting memberof channel form open at the top and having series of openings in itslateral walls, of shoulder members to extend into. the ends of saidchannel member and provided with lateral channel member and the upperedges of projections to for adjusting of garments, said connectingmember being made of sheet metal having its middle portion bent 'to formthe upwardly opening channel and its edge portions bent outwardly,downwardly and inwardly from the upper edges of the walls of the channelto form tubular portions for inclosing the outer ends of the projectionson theshoulder mem engage any of said openings bers which extend throughthe openings in said channel walls.

2. In a garment hanger, the combination with a central connecting memberof channel form open at the top and having series of openings in itslateral walls, of shoulder members to extend into the ends of saidprovided with lateral projections to engage any of said openings foradjusting the hanger to fit different sizes 0f garments, said connectingmember being made of sheet metal having its middle portion bent to formthe channel and its edge portions bent outwardly, downwardly andinwardly from the upper edges of the walls of the channel to formtubular portions vfor inclosing the outer ends of the projections onthe, shoulder members which extend the hanger to fit difierent sizesthrough the openings in saidchannel walls,

there being'portions offthe sheet metal at the ends of the'channel bentinward from the walls of said channel so as to bridge the latter forretaining the shoulder members against swinging about said projectionsin said openings as a center.

In testimony whereofI have signed my name to this specification. V

THEODORE .KAUFER.

